US Patent Issued to Overhead Door on Nov. 18 for "Secure exit lane door" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,754, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Overhead Door Corp. (Lewisville, Texas).

"Secure exit lane door" was invented by Jason L. Ryan (Corpus Christi, Texas), Daniel Seymour (Corpus Christi, Texas), Don Bray (Corpus Christi, Texas), James W. Palmer (Corpus Christi, Texas) and Federico Romero (Corpus Christi, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door system includes a corridor sized to allow humans to move through the corridor, the corridor having a first door located at a first end; a second door located at the second end; a controller operatively connected to the first and second doors for controlling the first and second doors; ...